Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:48:16 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates on root in 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <20020306144816.C2BBFBA03@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020306143532.GC4280@raggedclown.net> References: <47615415@toto.iv> <15493.57118.414479.492155@guru.mired.org> <20020306143532.GC4280@raggedclown.net>
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On Wednesday 06 March 2002 09:35 am, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
| On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:19:26AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
| > I personally make the root partitoin larger, enable soft updates, and
| > use SCSI disks with proper tagged queuing support so the write cache
| > isn't a problem.
|
| Can you clarify this a bit.
| With a SCSI disk, tagged queuing etc, soft-updates are not helpful ?
| yes or no ?
No. That is, they ARE helpful.
But with tagged queuing on a SCSI disk, write caching isn't dangerous, so
there's no reason not to use it.
With an IDE disk, write caching IS dangerous.
Another advantage of SCSI.
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